You terrorist sympathizers are equally hilarious.
1) Abhinandan reportedly fired a R 23 missile apparently which is an air-to-air missile employed in a dogfight. Two things to understand here - one is missile locking technology whereby the missile latches onto a heat signature of an aircraft and fires. The other is BVR whereby planes at a distance of say, 200 km can be targeted via radar. I doubt BVR comes into play in Abhinandan's case because the F16 was right before his nose.
The Pakistan F16s have BVR because it was a feature provided them thanks to America's generosity in thinking they were being used to take out the Taliban.
Anyway, semantics aside, he is a talented pilot whether he used BVR or not, no doubts. By manual locking, I was referring to the fact that from the cockpit, he wouldn't have the 360 degree view that some aircraft like Rafale, say have. He was encumbered by the limitations.
2) Agreed about Brahmos. It was a slip of the tongue as I was specifically thinking about it when I wrote it. Regardless, missile power will indeed come into play if we take it to the next step.
3) We upgraded the Mig-29s, didn't upgrade to Mig 29s. I think my sentence construction was not clear.
Saying it's BS by a terrorist supporter without a response has no effect. Now, go lick Hafiz Saeed's rear end for all I care.